Re: Suggestion about best practice with .gpr files

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Maxim Reznik <reznikmm@gmail.com> writes:

> foolib/
> ...|
> ...+-- Makefile
> ...+--alire.toml
> ...+-- docs
> ...+-- gnat
> ...|
> ......+-- foo.gpr
> ......+-- foo_tests.gpr
> ...+-- source
> ...+-- testsuite

I used to maintain a project that was compiled with gnat for general
development and initial testing, and ObjectAda for final testing and
release. So there was an "object_ada" directory parallel to the "gnat"
directory. But I also found that the Makefiles differed enough that they
were in those directories as well; shared rules are in a "rules.make"
file.

Similar issues arise when maintaining distribution files for several OS
versions.

And "docs" are source, just in a different language. Why are they in a
separate directory?

If you are grepping for all occurences of variable "foo", you want to
search the .texi and .ad[sb] files at the same time.

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-- Stephe